The short answer is yes. But they don’t yet understand what it means.
After years of watching trust in the news media slide down so much that POLITICIANS are now more trusted than journalists, it is dawning on executives and some journalists that people dislike them…they really really dislike them.
But they don’t yet understand why. They see the distrust of Americans as an indictment of Americans. We are irredeemable, deplorable, Nazis, and garbage.
Anonymous TV exec: “If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form.” https://t.co/zWiIqKYx1b
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 30, 2024
That sentiment is not directed merely at Trump supporters; it’s aimed at every…
